On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Amir Vadai <am...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> This small patchset fixes a small issue in the ethtool User/kernel API.
>
> Hash function is represented as an eight bit field, every bit represents a
> function. Currently possible values are: 1 for Toeplitz and 2 for XOR.
> This commit changes the representation from bit flags into a value. Because
> only one hash function will be used at a time, there is no sense using bit
> flags for it.
> Since today only 2 functions are supported, and there is no user space ethtool
> that supports this feature, we can switch into values without causing any
> backward compatibility issues.
>
> After this patchset is applied, I will send the user space patch.
>
> In this occasion I added a missing validation to the hash function value.
>
> This patchset was applied and tested over commit 2ea2f62 ("net: fix crash in
> build_skb()")
>
> Please push this patchset to stable 3.19.y in which those two issues were
> introduced.
and 4.0.y too I guess?
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